Word: ergs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...associate dean of undergraduate education, says CUE has not met yet because the Faculty Council only recently announced which of its members have volunteered this year to sit on CUE, which is composed of five Faculty Council members and five students from the Educational Resources Group (ERG). Since the Faculty Council members are elected in May of the preceding academic year, it would seem logical to assign faculty to the CUE at the same time. But Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean of the Faculty, who assigns Faculty Council members to subcommittees such as CUE, explains he doesn't ask Faculty...
...would assume, however, the Council could make substitutions for faculty drop-outs in the fall without too much hardship. After all, the ERG has managed to set up its subcommittees and has already met four or five times...
Bowersock theorizes that faculty members are hesitant to speak at CUE meetings because students seem so eager to make their points and "wave their hands with gusto." Because the CUE is open to guests, many ERG members attend the meetings and Bowersock believes the professors find the imbalanced ratio--sometimes 25 students to two or three faculty members--"overwhelming." Professors seem less anxious when lecturing to vastly larger student audiences in class each week, but then monologues and dialogues are two different things...
...Educational Resources Group (ERG) heard of the committee's troubles this week and panicked. ERG members sent the committee a letter reminding it of Rosovsky's guarantee. Some Core committee members believe that "hard science" concentrators will not be able to bypass the "life science" part of the Core. These concentrators then would only qualify for a half-course exemption in Science A, reducing their Core requirement to nine, not eight half-courses...
...Core committee insists it will dig up the other half-course exemption for these students somehow, but some ERG members have lost their faith in Core promises. James Henderson '80, the member of ERG who drafted the letter, said ERG approved the Core Curriculum, last year in part because the committee agreed it would not increase the Core requirements. "One of the things they kept pounding at us was that the Core would be no more than eight half-courses," Henderson said...